It was in January 1968 when the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) released one of its staff members to establish the first regional association of development banks, the Latin American Association of Development Financing Institutions (ALIDE), in Lima, Peru, in collaboration with the Industrial Bank of Peru, which provided office space and support staff to get

For many years there have existed national development bank associations, mostly in a number of large countries. In Brazil, the Association of Brazilien Development Banks (ABDE) has played an influential and important role. It publishes the highly respected journal “Rumos” every month. In Malaysia, the Association of Development Finance Institutions of Malaysia (ADFIM) has played

The early sponsors of the associations were in agreement that they would reduce their support of the associations as more and more support was received from their members and they reached the point where their membership fees would become sufficient to support their operations. There was the need for institution building and capacity building in

Latin American Association of Development Financing Institutions African Association of Development Finance Institutions Association of Development Financing Institution in Asia and the Pacific Association of National Development Finance Institutions in Member Countries of the Islamic Development Bank (ADFIMI) European Development Finance Institutions (EDFI)

An important study of the first fifty years of development banking (Kapur/Lewis/Webb) concludes that the aspect in which development banks have least fulfilled their functions was to build their profile with the public and to make the importance of their role generally known and understood. That profile had been defined by their governments for them